Atelier Min Chen | Atelier Min Chen

BIOGRAPHY

Min Chen (b.1975). A master’s graduate in telecommunications and multi-media from the Institut Supérieur d'Électronique de Paris (ISEP), Paris France (2000), Min Chen enjoys cross-disciplinary initiatives and is also an avid photographer whose work on urban life and cities have been published and commissioned for books and publications since 2009. As a visual artist-designer, his interest encompasses ideas of codes and iconography and the psychology of de-coding, deciphering and interpretations of seemingly shared symbols and meanings as well an interest in intersecting materials and disciplines to evolve new visual languages.

MONUMENTAL

Once in a while, something large (and sometimes loud) comes by. We analyse it – even evolve a language for it -decoding, deducing, inferencing, interpreting in frenzy. Alas before we know it, it has come right up to the face and firmly implants itself in our space, imprints itself on the mind, on the imagination. It never leaves.

New York New York! 2014

Gilded July, Bastille Paris, 2005

Oh Champs-Élysées, Paris 2005

Fontaine Bartholdi, Lyon France 2005

Tentacular City, Tokyo 2005

Wood and Steel, Tokyo 2005

Maman Spider Roppingi Hills, Tokyo 2005

Walled Information, Tokyo 2005

Majestic Colours, Singapore, 2018

Blue Mosque (Masjid Malabar), Singapore, 2018

Golden Studio, Singapore, 2018

IN TRANSIT

Each and every day, everyone is en route somewhere. Some seem to travel faster and some slower; others toss the map and ride the wind, still others decide to get off the train altogether. The departure and ending points may be the same - even routes may be similar - yet our journeys and stories could not be more different.

EN ROUTE . 途中

Man plastering posters in Montparnasse-Bienvenüe station in Paris

Remaking, Montparnasse-Bienvenüe Métro station Paris 2005

High-speed travelator in Montparnasse Paris

On the Fast Lane, Paris 2005

People walking in the snow along River Seine in Paris

Trudging Along, Paris 2005

Entrance-exit of Raspail metro station in Paris

In or Out?, Raspail Métro station in Paris, 2005

Crossing Paths, Melbourne Australia 2018

Wither the Time?, Melbourne Australia 2018

Turret Truck, Old Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo 2005

Zigzagging, Tokyo 2005

Passage of Time, Tokyo 2005

Rat Race, Shenzhen 2016

Time is Money, Hong Kong 2017

Transitory, Singapore 2022

I AM

What am I? A father, a mother, a brother, a chef, a butcher, a coffee maker, a dancer. Sometimes I am one, sometimes the other. And some days, I am all of these, all at once.